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Threat of radioactive leak at plutonium processing plant
Paul Joseph Watson
Monday, September 12, 2011
An explosion at a French nuclear facility that processes dangerous MOX plutonium has killed one person and injured four others, provoking fear that radioactivity could be escaping into the atmosphere, although officials have played down such concerns.
However, the French government's complicity in hiding the severity of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster will do nothing to assuage concerns about authorities being honest with the public about the scale of the problem.
"There were no radioactive leaks after the blast, caused by a fire near a furnace in the Centraco radioactive waste storage site, officials said," reports BBC News.
"It produces MOX fuel, which recycles plutonium from nuclear weapons, but does not include reactors."
French nuclear watchdog ASN has not explained the cause of the blast, but conceded that, "The furnace that exploded is used to melt waste with levels of radioactivity ranging from low to very high."
As we highlighted during the Fukushima crisis, Plutonium is the most deadly radioactive isotope known to man, and MOX is two million times more deadly than normal enriched uranium. The Half-life of Plutonium-239 in MOX is 24,000 years and just a few milligrams of P-239 escaping in a smoke plume will contaminate soil for tens of thousands of years.
Although officials are saying that no radioactivity has escaped, a spokesman for France's Atomic Energy Commission rather unreassuringly said, "For the time being nothing has made it outside," authorities would be expected to play down the severity of such an event.
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Nuclear power accounts for over 70% of France's energy needs. Any crisis approaching Fukushima proportions would completely cripple the country's economy.
However, it is important to note that unlike Japan, France is not recovering from a massive earthquake, therefore any necessary measures to secure the facility will be far easier to perform. In addition, France is the leading country in nuclear safety expertise and can call on a vast number of experienced professionals in the field.
France has painful memories of radioactive contamination, and the country's government has a history of nuclear cover-ups.
During the Chernobyl disaster, French authorities "deliberately suppressed information about the spread of radioactive fallout." In parts of France, thyroid cancer surged as the population didn't take steps to protect itself having believed their government that the radiation cloud was harmless.
"Two independent physicists say in the report that the state-run Central Service for Protection against Radioactive Rays (SCPRI) knew of high levels of contamination in Corsica and southeastern France but kept the details under wraps," reported Expatica.com.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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Happy New Year!
I wanted to write a quick blog entry to wish all of my readers a very happy, healthy, and blessed new year. I sincerely hope that it's the best year yet for all of you! The new year is a time when a baseball player's internal clock gets ticking a little faster. We can sense that spring training is fast approaching, and the need to be ready becomes critical. The work ethic that we display these next few months will definitely have a direct impact on our start to 2011.
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Happy New Year! I've been following you through social media and I really enjoy reading your blog and tweets. Thanks for making my new year's resolution come true by replying AND retweeting my tweet on the first day of 2011. 🙂 Keep writing (plus tweeting) and chasing that dream! You are truly an inspiration to those who need to have faith in themselves. I hope your 2011 is filled with positivity and happiness. I'm always rooting for you.


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No automaker in the history of our country could ever define the American Dream like Cadillac. For years, the brand has been the status ideal for many hardworking Americans, and their designs, quality, and comfort have made them the forerunner in luxury travel. One such model that exemplifies the Cadillac standard is the Cadillac Fleetwood, which began its long-running legacy in 1947. It was labeled the flagship design and became the most popular Cadillac model for decades. It's that kind of bloodline that thirty-two year old Scott Buras of Kenner, Louisiana fell in love with. Owning four straight Cadillac vehicles on his roster, Scott found a stock 1995 Cadillac Fleetwood and immediately began work on customizing it.
Having already earned a background in stereo competition, it was a no-brainer that Scott looked to upgrade the Fleetwood's sound system with the help of R & D Audio in Marrero, Louisiana. With a surround sound and DVD set-up complete, Scott's desire for cutting edge gadgetry was fulfilled by R &D. Now that his initial upgrade was complete, Scott chose paint as his next area of build focus, and he began searching for a reputable painter that could lay down the creativity and vision that he had for the vehicle. He enlisted Candyman of Corpus Christi, Texas to drop in a deep House of Kolor Kandy Green, along with patterns that flow through the entire body. The paint scheme added the elegant look that Scott needed to match up with the factory design aspects of America's number one luxury automaker.
After the color combination was brilliantly laid down, it was time for Scott to hone in on making the perfect interior to complement the car's fancy exterior. In order to accomplish this feat, Scott brought the Fleetwood to Auto Motif in Gretna, Louisiana. The crew at Auto Motif poured their hearts into the design, using a myriad of upgrade techniques. First, the dashboard received a fiberglass treatment and was painted to match the exterior. Once that was completed, the team added green suede to the ceiling and pillars of the car from top to bottom. The seats were wrapped with Gucci and leather and the controls were modernized and given a digital treatment. Capping off the car's opulence was a set of Player Wire Wheels which were anodized with a mixture of green and gold and fit onto the big body. A full flat-panel television monitor was outfitted into the fifth wheel compartment, while a Plexiglas cover was added to the screen for weatherproofing.
Quick to stress that he did not intend to build a trailer queen, this dedicated member of Homies C.C. out of New Orleans, Louisiana, takes pride in his custom choices and can be seen on a daily basis in "Cadillac Pimpin'." "I want to thank my family, friends, and most importantly, my car club for recognizing my potential," Scott shares with us, "It's a dream come true for me to grace the pages of the magazine I grew up reading." With Scott's dedication and passion towards building a unique Cadillac Fleetwood, it was only a matter of time before it was noticed, and we are happy to give it some well-deserved shine. n
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Owner: Scott Buras
Car Club: Homies C.C.
Vehicle: '95 Cadillac Fleetwood
City/State: Kenner, Louisiana
Paint: Candyman from Corpus Christi, Texas handled the exterior shooting a blend of House Of Kolor Kandy Green over a mixture of patterns and graphics using a special blend of House Of Kolor Kandies.
Interior: The dashboard was rebuilt in fiberglass and painted to match. The seats were wrapped in leather and Gucci material, along with the exterior top. Green suede was used on the ceiling and pillars down each side. Auto Motif in Gretna, Louisiana handled the install.
Suspension: A full custom Viair air-suspension setup was installed using Viair compressors and struts.
Stereo: Scott, with the help of R & D Audio in Marrero, Louisiana, replaced the stock head unit with an Eclipse DVD player and added a complete surround sound system using Memphis Audio components. Powered by three JL Audio Amplifiers the boom is produced by three JL Audio 12-inch woofers. A flat-panel TV monitor was cut into the fifth wheel compartment for added visual effect.
Wheels: 100-Spoke 14-inch anodized green and gold Player Wire Wheels.
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This is my old blog. You can find my current blog at stephanieperkins.com.
Hello friends,
Since 2005, I've blogged here at naturalartificial.blogspot.com. With a nostalgic sort of sadness, I'm leaving this platform to continue my blog at the newly designed stephanieperkins.com.
It was a hard decision to make. I have so many memories here—so many friendships were made here—but it was time to leave Blogger.
It felt very, well, 2005 to be relying on so many different companies and products (Blogger, GoDaddy, Fetch, BBEdit, Photobucket, as well as my friend and web designer Manning Krull) for one single website. Also, GoDaddy is pretty gross.
So now I'm doing the Squarespace thing. Everything in one place.
It seems good so far.
This will be my last blog entry on this platform. If you would like to subscribe to my new blog—and I very sincerely hope that you do—you'll find the necessary links on my new blog. You can subscribe via email (the link is in the right sidebar of the new blog) or RSS.
Thank you for reading this. It has been a pleasure and an honor.
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Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom.
Summer Days & Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins, will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. So set out your beach chair and grab your sunglasses. You have twelve reasons this summer to soak up the sun and fall in love.
Oh, my! Isn't it wonderful?
I'm so, so happy to be able to share with you the cover and description of Summer Days & Summer Nights, which will be released next summer on June 14, 2016.
Our in-house editor—the extraordinary Sara Goodman—and I wanted a cover that complemented our beautiful first anthology, My True Love Gave to Me, and, once again, designer Olga Grlic and illustrator Jim Tierney did a fantastic job.
(Side note: If you haven't visited Jim's website, you should. I'm a fan. He also did the interior illustrations for MTLGTM, and he'll be doing them again for SD&SN!)
This cover . . . I can't stop smiling. My heart is bursting with joy. I've been working hard (SO HARD) with these incredible authors since last spring, and it feels so warm and good to see all of our work together. As one.
To Leigh, Francesca, Libba, Cassie, Brandy, Tim, Lev, Nina, Veronica, Jon, and Jen: THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU AND ADMIRE YOU ALL SO MUCH. MAN OH MAN. YOU GUYS. YOU GUYS ARE SUPERHEROES.
I mean, holy freaking authors, right?? And every single one of them has been a pleasure to work with! Not only are they brilliant and talented, but they're SO MUCH FUN and have such enormous hearts. I can't wait until you can read what they've written for you. Their stories are just as marvelous and swoony and funny and surprising and delightful as they are.
Look . . . look at these little guys! All of these characters that I know and love!
Like MTLGTM, all twelve couples from the stories are on the cover.
All twelve stories are original and feature all-new characters . . . with the exception of my own. For now, I'll let the other authors (if they choose!) share with you which of these characters are theirs and what their stories are about.
My characters are the ones using the tire swing. Their names are Marigold Moon Ling and North Drummond, and if you read My True Love Gave to Me, you've already met them in a Christmas tree lot in "It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown."
North & Marigold fan art by Giovana Medeiros
I loved writing their holiday story, but I knew their journey wasn't quite over. It was a joy getting to revisit them half a year later! Thank you to every single reader who asked me for MORE. I was listening. :-)
Thanks again to Sara and Olga and everyone at St. Martin's, Jim, my agent Kate, and the super-supportive authors—Holly, Ally, Matt, Gayle, Jenny, David, Kelly, Myra, Rainbow, Laini, and Kiersten—of my first anthology. Thank you for letting me do this.
And one more thanks to my summer authors: Thank you for trusting me. You guys brought it. I am so freaking proud of this collection!
Our book will be released on June 14, 2016, and it's available for pre-order now:
Indiebound — order from your local independent bookseller
This anthology will make you feel sunny inside. I can't wait for you to read it!
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My friend Alexa's fantastic new novel Sound is releasing this week! If you love science fiction, you absolutely need to check out her books. They're so smart. So GOOD. To celebrate its release (and the release of Isla in paperback), I'll be joining her—and a few other awesome authors!—at two upcoming events:
Sunday, October 4th at 2:00 pm
A young adult panel with Renne Ahdieh, Alexandra Duncan, Alan Gratz, and Stephanie Perkins. Everyone is welcome! Free to attend.
Monday, October 5th, at 5:30 pm
A young adult panel with Renee Ahdieh, Alexandra Duncan, Alan Gratz, Stephanie Perkins, and Will Walton. Everyone is welcome! Tickets are $10. From the store's website: "Each ticket can be redeemed for $10 off a purchase of the featured authors' books prior to or at the event, and includes one admission pass to the event."
I'll also be attending Hank Green's super sweet inaugural Nerdcon: Stories in MINNEAPOLIS, MN on October 9th & 10th. The guest list is insane, and I'm so psyched and honored to have been invited. There's still time to register if you haven't.
These will be my last events for the rest of the year (and probably most of next year), so please come say hello to me if you can!
As for the rest of October . . . hell yeah, I'm doing 31 Horror Films in 31 Days again! Stay tuned. This blog is about to become a blog again.
Hi, everyone!
I miss real blogging, and I hope/plan to return to it this spring. In the meantime, I wanted to mention these upcoming events:
March 16: I'll be in Winston-Salem, NC at Salem College with Kami Garcia, Brendan Reichs, and Carrie Ryan. The event is at 7pm at the Drama Workshop in Elberson Fine Arts Center. It's free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
March 25: I'll be at the Midwest City Library in Oklahoma City, OK from 10am to 11am. This event is free and open to the public.
March 25: I'll be at the Northwest Library in Oklahoma City, OK from 6pm to 7pm. This event is free and open to the public.
March 26: I'll be at the Edmond Library in Oklahoma City, OK from 7pm to 8pm. This event is free and open to the public.
April 11: I'll be at YALLWest in Santa Monica, CA. Some of the events will be ticketed. Check their website for details.
May 12–17: I'll be returning to the RT Booklovers Convention in Dallas, TX. Registration required to attend.
I'm especially excited for the Oklahoma events, because they'll be my first in the state. I hope some of you will be able to come and say hello!
Before I sign off . . .
HAPPY (early) ST. PATRICK'S DAY! As per my annual tradition, I'll be making Storyqueen Shelley Moore Thomas's delicious corned beef with marmalade and watching Once, my favorite Irish movie. Do you have any fun traditions?
New York City! I'm packing my luggage!
And so are Holly Black, Ally Carter, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, and Kiersten White!!!
(Okay. Not Gayle, Jenny, or David. They already live there.)
But—that's right—*NINE* out of us twelve anthology authors are coming for *TWO* very special events in your city this week.
Nine authors!
That's so many authors!!!
Plus, I'm doing a bonus reading with a bunch of other cool people this Wednesday at the Jefferson Market branch of the NYPL. Here's my full schedule:
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3rd
6–7:30 PM at Jefferson Market branch library (corner of 6th Ave and 10th St)
Teen Author Reading Night
Featuring: Anna Carey, Sarah Beth Durst, Margaret Gurevich, Daphne Grab, Claire Legrand, Stephanie Perkins, Kieran Scott, and Rebecca Serle. Hosted by David Levithan.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4th
4 PM at Barnes & Noble Tribeca
My True Love Gave to Me: Panel, Q&A, and Signing
Featuring: Holly Black, Ally Carter, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Stephanie Perkins, and Kiersten White.
Additional details: Priority seating with purchase. Guests who wish to sit must purchase a book from B&N—either My True Love Gave to Me *or* any book written by one of the featured authors. If nothing is purchased, guests will have to stand. No purchase is required to attend the signing.
7 PM at McNally Jackson
My True Love Gave to Me: Holiday Reception
Featuring: Holly Black, Ally Carter, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Stephanie Perkins, and Kiersten White.
Additional details: This party is also in celebration of McNally Jackson's ten-year anniversary. Hurrah! Wear your ugliest holiday sweater. THERE WILL BE PRIZES.
SPECIAL AWESOME SUPER BONUS: Matt de la Peña pre-signed the stock at both stores, and Laini Taylor sent signed stickers. Yes! You'll be getting the anthology signed by *ELEVEN* of the twelve authors.
But . . . but . . . what about Rainbow Rowell?
As you may have seen elsewhere online, Rainbow was scheduled to be here. Sadly, there's been a family emergency, and she'll be staying in Nebraska. We'll miss you so much, Rainbow.
We will also miss this FREAKING OUTSTANDING cardigan that your equally talented husband made especially for these two events:
I know.
To be clear: We will miss you more, Rainbow.
But. Yeah.
We're totally gonna miss your cardigan.
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South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia . . . we're coming for you!
In fifteen minutes, I'll be hopping into my car and driving to YALLFest. Hurrah! I assume that if you're planning to attend, those plans, well . . . they've already been in the works for a while. But for everyone else in the South, you can still catch David Levithan, Jennifer E. Smith, and me at the following events this week:
CHARLESTON, SC: Saturday, November 8
Various panels and signings at YALLFest.
DECATUR, GA: Sunday, November 9
2:00 PM reading and signing at Little Shop of Stories.
ATHENS, GA: Sunday, November 9
7:30 PM party and signing at Avid Bookshop.
CHAPEL HILL, NC: Monday, November 10
7:00 PM reading and signing at Flyleaf Books.
ASHEVILLE, NC: Tuesday, November 11
7:00 PM reading and signing at Malaprop's.
And if you don't live in this region, there's still time to enter this sweepstakes to win a free copy of My True Love Gave to Me and these cute holiday cookie cutters!
If you live in the United States, you can enter here now through November 13th to win either: 1 of 10 grand prizes (a copy of My True Love Gave to Me, a holiday cookie cutter, and a gift tag) *or* 1 of 115 holiday cookie cutters and gift tags.
The gingerbread lady cookie cutter is inspired by something in my story, "It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown." So much fun!
Okay, gotta dash. I hope to see some of you soon!!!
Happy November, friends!
The first snow of the season began falling on Asheville at midnight between Halloween and the first of November. It was magical. It felt like a gift just for me. I love snow, and I love November. It's my favorite month.
My lucky month.
Good things happen in November.
Last month—my second favorite month, and, yes, I rank everything—Jarrod and I participated in horror author Daniel Kraus's annual 31 Horror Films in 31 Days Challenge. The idea is simple: Watch thirty-one horror films during the month of October, and tweet about each one with a brief description or review.
There's no prize. Just the glory of getting to say you've done it.
Well . . . WE DID IT.
Here's the full list of films we watched. Some of these tweets were more clever than others.* We watched these movies pretty late at night, okay?? My brain was tired.**
*The best were written by my husband.
**That's my weak excuse for two Kevin McCallister jokes. Cripes.***
***Also, I just really like Home Alone.
1. THE MIST (2007): Andrea, Dale, & Carol from THE WALKING DEAD get trapped in a grocery store & fight a parking-lot octopus.
2. SLEEPAWAY CAMP (1983): Crop tops and short shorts are killed in delightfully creative ways. Lock up your curling iron.
3. ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (2006): Unfriendly friends go to a ranch for blow jobs. Heads are blown off instead.
4. RAVENOUS (1999): Cool setting cool cannibals OH NO THIS MUSIC AGAIN. Guy Pearce, you're great, but I *think* it's a comedy?
5. COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES (2012): It'll make you wish the elderly were used more often in climactic chase scenes.
6. GRABBERS (2012): Irish island gets drunk for protection against alien sea monsters. Great characters. Gorgeous setting.
7. THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (2008): Poor choices abound as Bradley Cooper photographs a butcher doing his work on the subway.
8. OLDBOY (2003): Keep your mouth shut. For multiple reasons.
9. FUNNY GAMES (1997): If their son had been Kevin McCallister, this home invasion would have gone very differently.
10. [REC] (2007): Blair Witch Outbreak in Barcelona.
11. SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE (2011): Some guy = ice cream man. People = bullies. Sad. Sweet. Funny. Quiet. Not really horror?
12. DETENTION (2011): Peeta and Dane Cook star in this 90s edition of Trivial Pursuit: Pop Culture.
13. HORNS (2013): Townspeople can't lie to Harry Potter's pointy nubbins.
14. DRAG ME TO HELL (2009): Rests beside CORALINE in the pantheon of films about evil buttons.
15. CANDYMAN (1992): It takes longer to call him than Bloody Mary, but it's worth it for his coat alone.
16. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (2009): I'm having a hard time digesting this one.
17. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (2011): What's black and white and brown all over? That one scene.
18. THE VANISHING (1988): Why you should never buy coffee at a gas station.
19. THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959): Teenagers, hot rods, and ukeleles. A regular gila monster. And then more ukeleles.
20. CURSED (2005): (A) Wednesday Addams, Mark Zuckerberg, Pacey, Kitty Sanchez, Ron Swanson, Lindsay Bluth. (B) Werewolves.
21. BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974): The call is coming from inside the sorority! A modern slasher made pre-HALLOWEEN. Impressive.
22. THE RETURNED (2013): Zombies have been cured! Oops. Medicine's gone. Cue humanity at its worst.
23. FRANKENSTEIN (2011, Cumberbatch as Creature): Wow. WOW. Been waiting to see this for three years. Danny Boyle did NOT disappoint! Outstanding.
24. THE HITCHER (1986): Killer hitchhiker finds perfect victim—a guy who, inexplicably, will never describe him to the cops.
25. PROM NIGHT (1980): Disco dancing! And other things that go bump in the night.
26. FRANKENSTEIN (2011, Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein): Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller switch roles. Creature becomes Creator. Phenomenal.
27. THE GINGERDEAD MAN (2005): Gary Busey is a tiny homicidal cookie. Yes, you read that correctly. Yes, you should watch it.
28. ERNEST SCARED STUPID (1991): When fighting booger trolls, don't forget the miak.
29. YOU'RE NEXT (2011): The Wet Bandits were lucky Kevin McCallister didn't use a blender, unlike this film's Final Girl.
30. SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004): My favorite horror comedy. Period. (You've got red on you.)
31. SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999): Is it weird that I've always wanted to live on this set? Christopher Walken's pointy teeth and all.
All of these films were new-to-us with the exception of Ernest Scared Stupid, which we watch every Halloween Eve while carving pumpkins, and Shaun of the Dead and Sleepy Hollow, which we watch every year on Halloween itself. Obviously, we love them! Tease me all you want about Ernest, but I'll still maintain that it's massively underrated. It actually did scare me as a child. And the troll in it (a man in a costume) is ickier than 95% of modern CGI monsters.
As for the new films, Jarrod and I were unanimous in our top pick: Sleepaway Camp. This one was BONKERS. And so, so wrong. I never use this verb, but: Bless this film for existing.
Also, thanks to everyone on Twitter who told me to listen to the Sleepaway Camp episode of How Did This Get Made? It made me laugh (almost) as much as the movie.
Seriously, guys. That movie is ridiculous. And I mean that as a compliment.
The other films that I loved: Grabbers, Oldboy, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Candyman, Horns, The Vanishing, Black Christmas, and both versions of Danny Boyle's filmed play Frankenstein, which I saw in a movie theater via Fathom Events.
I also really, really, really liked Some Guy Who Kills People, though it seemed like it would be better friends with Little Miss Sunshine than Nightmare on Elm Street. It was great to see Kevin Corrigan, one of my favorite weirdos, in a leading role.
There was also plenty to enjoy about these: The Mist, Ravenous, Cockneys vs Zombies, [Rec], Drag Me To Hell, The Human Centipede, Cursed, The Returned, The Gingerdead Man, and You're Next.
As for the SCARIEST film, my tolerance for horror is high, so . . . none of them frightened me. I'm sorry! I know that's not helpful. But Candyman was the only film that made me vocally jump, and [Rec] was the only film that made me sick to my stomach. But that's because it used shaky cam. (Death to shaky cam!)
Funny Games was the hardest to watch. An hour and forty minutes of unrelenting misery. It wasn't graphic. Just bleak. And frustrating. With my least favorite type of ending to boot. The director accomplished exactly what he set out to do, and I can admire that, but I still hope I never have to see it—or anything like it—ever again.*
*I can't help but feel like the director (of both the original and the remake), Michael Haneke, would see this as a victory. Kudos to you, Haneke.
A few final thoughts:
Best title = The Midnight Meat Train
Runner up = Some Guy Who Kills People
Best title screen = You're Next, it's part of the actual plot
Runner up = Ravenous, vomiting Guy Pierce
Best kill = You're Next, blender
Runner up = Sleepaway Camp, curling iron
Best chase scene = Cockneys vs Zombies, elderly man with walker vs zombies
Runner up = Frankenstein, the entire film(s)
Best worst quote = Sleepaway Camp, "Eat shit and die." "Eat shit and live, Bill."
Runner up = The Gingerdead Man, "Got milk?"
Best costume = Candyman, the title villain's wicked sweet coat
Runner up = Sleepaway Camp, male crop tops and short shorts
Seriously, guys. You HAVE to see Sleepaway Camp.
Even though it's November.
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by: Chad Childers, featured Writer, Loudwire
Volbeatare hitting new heights in their career, but with all the good stuff there is a transition that's being made. The group parted ways with guitarist Thomas Bredahl earlier this year, and singer Michael Poulsen is discussing the move.
He tells Lithium magazine that the band parted ways with Bredahl at an inopportune time, as they were just getting ready to play the Gigantour trek earlier this year, but they've more than made do in his absence.
The singer, who also plays guitar for Volbeat, says, "Stuff happens. People just have to separate, you know? It's just like a marriage. You can work on it and you can try to save it and you can really try to figure out what it is and everything, but sometimes it's best that people just separate. It's something like that with bands, too. Sometimes it really works and other times it doesn't."
Until the band is able to name a full time replacement, they've been using Mercyful Fate guitarist Hank Shermann as a fill-in. Poulsen says, "He's been playing with us since Gigantour. We'd just gotten home and we had only been home for a few weeks. There was not time to find a new guitar player. We have only been hiring Hank as a stand-in guitar player because he's busy with his own thing."
Shermann came to the band through Michael Denner, the Mercyful Fate vocalist who made a guest appearance on their last album. Poulsen says, "Denner, he recommended Hank when I said we needed a player. I'm a very close friend to Michael Denner and he heard that I fired Thomas and said, 'You should ask Hank to help you out if you're in trouble here. He might be the guy to do that.'" The singer says it's been a great match so far.
Volbeat will spend the summer months playing dates with Hellyeah and Iced Earth.
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Nokia is angling to release a Windows Phone handset with a real-deal PureView camera, reports The Verge. The next generation Lumia would include a 41-megapixel sensor similar to the one found in Nokia's Belle-powered 808 PureView smartphone, and would help it stand out in a sea of 8-megapixel cameras embedded in diminutive black slabs.
The specs of the Nokia 808 PureView's sensor blew us away when it was revealed at Mobile World Congress last year—it had a giant camera protrusion from the back that resembled a periscope (we explained last year the merits of the massive sensor and its ability to oversample pixels). The phone didn't launch in the US, it used Nokia's own operating system, and it didn't rack up huge sales numbers, but its attempt to push the smartphone camera out of the 5-to-8 megapixel comfort zone earned it attention.
When the Nokia Lumia 920 was announced in fall 2012 alongside Windows Phone 8, the PureView branding of its camera created brief speculation that it would carry the same 41-megapixel sensor as the 808 PureView. Ultimately, Nokia's use of the PureView brand turned out to be more flexible, and the Lumia 920 had just an 8-megapixel camera with some expanded functionality.
But the real PureView sensor may be coming to the next Lumia phone, which is codenamed EOS and may be made of aluminum instead of the polycarbonate Nokia previously favored for its highest-end phones. The body would be shared by another rumored Nokia phone, codenamed Catwalk.
According to The Verge, the EOS is set for a US launch in 2013, likely with AT&T, as early as summer.


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National Bullying Prevention Month was created by PACER in 2006 with a one-week event which has now evolved into a month-long effort that encourages everyone to take an active role in the bullying prevention movement. Efforts are focused on encouraging both personal and community responsibility to prevent bullying. During this month, communities are urged to address the problem of bullying through media campaigns, classroom activities, workshops, and other special events.
Promote school-wide awareness of bullying issues by sponsoring a poster contest. First, complete one of the lessons below and review information learned about bullying and the roles of bystanders and victims. Divide the class into three groups, and have each group create a poster representing the role of the bully, the victim, or bystanders to educate other classes about bullying issues. Then, advertise a poster-making contest to other classes, asking students to create posters that illustrate ways each student in the school can help stop bullying and make the school environment safer.
- Invite entrants to use any medium they wish to create their posters, including pencil, crayon, paint, or even an interactive medium such as the ReadWriteThink Printing Press (flyer format).
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Include a reproduction of the winning poster in the school newsletter or website, or feature the poster in the library, cafeteria, or main office.
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The Victorian Attorney General has hit back at claims from the Law Institute of Victoria that the Government's toughened stance on bikies amounts to an abuse of human rights.
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The Baillieu Government acted on its pre-election promise to crackdown on outlaw motorcycle gangs, introducing legislation into Parliament today that will enable the Supreme Court to ban certain gangs and strip them of assets if they're suspected of engaging in illegal activities.
The President of the Law Institute of Victoria, Michael Holcroft says similar laws in South Australia and New South Wales were the subject of a successful High Court challenge.
"We just say that (the laws are) unfair from a human rights point of view," Mr Holcroft said.
"This legislation, if it goes through unchallenged, could have the effect of making people criminals and liable to a penalty of up to 5 years imprisonment simply because they do choose to be associated with a particular club and wear particular colours."
Attorney General Robert Clark responded late this afternoon.
"It's very disappointing that the LIV leadership has chosen to engage in the sort of baseless conjecture that Mr Holcroft has been engaging in," Mr Clark said.
He says the Victoria's legislation doesn't include the aspect of the South Australian laws that that was successfully challenged in the High Court.
The Attorney General says motorcycle clubs will only be banned if the "Supreme Court is satisfied that there is serious criminal activity involved or the group or individual pose a serious threat to public safety".
"The point that I'm making is that these laws are proactive in stopping these gangs in future," Mr Clark said.
Paul Kuhn set up the FREE Australia Party in response to the South Australian anti-bikie legislation in 2008.
He is adamant Victoria's toughened bikie laws will be challenged successfully in the High Court.
"These laws that they've put in Victoria aren't permitting the cross examination of that evidence that is likely to put someone in jail," Mr Kuhn said.
"Maybe the funding would be better served to give to the police to bolster their criminal intelligence and deal with those things on a one-off basis."


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Do you follow? Art in Circulation 3
London, October 17 2014
Featuring Hannah Black, Derica Shields, Amalia Ulman
This is the third and final panel discussion in "Do You Follow? Art in Circulation," a talks series organized by Rhizome and the ICA, hosted by Rosalie Doubal and moderated by Michael Connor. This talk began with the polemic prompt that "Internet circulation changes bodies into image-bodies." A transcript of the first panel is available already; the second panel's transcript is delayed because of technical difficulties.
Rush transcript compiled by Loney Abrams and Anton Haugen. Discrepancies may exist due to transcription errors or unclear audio. Original video footage can be found here.
Michael Connor: Today's panel deals with the theme of bodies as— bodies and images in circulation. We are going to have a video by Hannah Black. The other panelists Amalia Ullman and Derica Shields will then join me on stage. Amalia will present her Excellences & Perfections performance, kind of the first real public-outing for that particular body of work. Derica will give us a visual sampler of the "Black Woman Cyborg," and then, we will have a general discussion.
This has been a really eventful week. This has been the most immersive, best research experience for me, personally, and I hope for some of the people who have joined in as well. The first panel began with questions of aesthetics and artistic practice, and how we think about aesthetic judgment when the work as a stand-alone entity is dissolving into this idea of the work as a circulating object. In the first talk, there was quite a lot of emphasis on opinions being statements of a subject-position rather than any sort of assessment of a work. There was also a lot of emphasis on the idea of disavowing, on resisting internet circulation, resisting being a part of media cultures, and developing alternative infrastructures.


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before & after
My mother-in-law bought me this great cast iron pot for Christmas. I love the bright red enamel and it's the perfect size for us. I didn't like the big, branded Martha Stewart handle it came with, however. I remembered seeing these knobs at the craft store and, just my luck, they fit perfectly. I already ditched the packaging but I believe they were meant as decorative ends for dowels...or something like that?!
I thought about staining it with a little Danish Oil but feared it might be too dark in comparison to the red so I just rubbed it with some Olive Oil, something I've done to finish wood surfaces for Israel's toys and it works well enough.
//update// I don't know if the wooden knob is oven safe, to answer your questions, but I don't plan on baking with it, at least not until I find out for sure if it's safe or not!
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18 comments:
- katieFebruary 01, 2011
olive oil has the potential to turn rancid. i would use mineral oil for those purposes!ReplyDelete
looks amazing, such a quick fix! i probably would have just put up with it and stayed frustrated!ReplyDelete
liking the new merry mishap logo....i am not a fan of labelling either so the new wooden knob suits that lovely bright red beautifully! DayleReplyDelete
I would never think to change the pot top, and I absolutely lvoe it! Brilliant:)ReplyDelete
you are genius jenn :) your photos looks so good!ReplyDelete
Cute! One questions, though. Was the Martha Stewart knob oven proof?ReplyDelete
@LindsayJewell-I do not know that! It might have been but it was a type of plastic so there's a chance it wasn't too. I wish I could tell you definitively.ReplyDelete
I would love to get this!ReplyDelete
Haha..that's great! I was given a Rachel (I forgot her last name, but she's on tv) pan and all I wanted to do was take off her name. Unfortunately I couldn't because it was a frying pan...or could I??ReplyDelete
so so cool tip! :) thanks!ReplyDelete
Very cute.ReplyDelete
Very creative.
the after is SOOOO much better! I don't believe martha stewart reflects who you are.ReplyDelete
and ps - love the blogs new look!
oh i love the natural wood with the red. good thinking!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 03, 2011
well, i'd never have thought of using those knobs as a pot holder!ReplyDelete
never would have thought to do that. genius.ReplyDelete
what a simple but perfect after! love it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 04, 2011
hi! i love your blog... that pot looks so much better. I have the martha stewart dutch oven too (found it on sale for 10 bucks! in white! score!) and yes, the knob is heat proof in the oven, up to about 400 degrees. I use it from stove-top-to-oven all the time. Love it...ReplyDelete
Is the wood knob heat-proof? You could always hold on to the martha one and put it on for when you need to use it in the oven. I know LeCreuset also sells stainless steel knobs separately, not sure if they would fit the Martha pots though.
- AnonymousFebruary 06, 2011
Well, it looks better but you may not be able to use it in the oven anymore. Just a thought.ReplyDelete
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In the heyday of laptop, back in the late-90s, Sheffield duo snd - Mark Fell and Matt Steel - were getting lots of airplay at my house. I recently ran across Fell's other work through DC-Release, a recent collaboration with Ernest Edmonds. This AV performance work constructs a tight correspondence between minimal colour-field graphics and a palette of percussive synthetic sound. In this conversation Fell talks formalism, philosophy, religion, art school, interactivity and audiovisuals and namechecks Heidegger, Yasunao Tone and Aleister Crowley, among others. I'd like to thank him for being a candid and generous "subject" in this blog's first interview - hopefully the first of many.
MW: Your work is quite diverse - though you might be best known for your music as snd, you've also worked across interactive installation and audiovisual performance, and as a collaborator and curator. What are the common threads in your practice?
MF: The common threads... It's difficult to answer as I am mainly aware of the inconsistencies. But that probably is what leads to the fundamental common thread which is the aesthetic focus. All my work is driven by that. It's not an exploration of any issues or in any way conceptual. It's a purely formal aesthetic exercise. That isn't to say that it exists in a vacuum and doesn't connect in lots of other kinds of ways with the rest of the world. But for me an aesthetic description is the probably the most meaningful. And actually it's a position that was quite difficult for me to adopt: in art school there was an overpowering emphasis on being somehow more socially engaged or critically connected. And it took me several years to realize how meaningless this was for me. This is something that spans my music, my audio visual work, my generative and interactive pieces and my curatorial practice.
Another thread is slightly harder to describe, and it's related to the first. I have a kind of bipolar attitude towards how the audience respond to what I do. I'm far more comfortable with an audience reacting negatively to what I do, than reacting positively. Like if I'm DJing and people start to nod their heads or move about a bit, I really find it quite unpleasant. And with music making, there is a definite emphasis on trying to disappoint the audience. I remember once being interviewed on a radio station in Perth and the interviewer asked "what will people feel when they come to see your music?", and I answered "disappointed" (which the promoter, who was sat beside me was not too impressed with). But generally I'm after a complete lack of energy in both my performances or how the audience responds. A complete lack of anything you might want to get into.
In curatorial practice the stance results in some quite challenging shows, and ones that funders are often unhappy with. With my colleague Mat Steel, we are constantly under pressure to produce events that are more immediately enjoyable. But I find an alienating experience far more rewarding. There's a story I always tell people: when I was a child, maybe about 4 or 5, my mum took me to an art gallery in Sheffield. There was a show of paintings on there which were just pure colours that actually (looking back) were not even very nice colours. And I was completely drawn into it. It totally confused me. Although I don't deliberately aim to emulate that experience, I think it's quite fundamental to how I get drawn into things.
This feeds fundamentally into my exploration of interactive art, both as a practicing artist and the critical research I conducted while working at the Creativity and Cognition studios in the UK. I think in lots of interactive art there is an emphasis on creating certain types of experience. A very good example is Bubbles by Woldgang Meunch. Here people instantly get what the work is about and can "play" with it quite quickly. The same is true of lots of other interactive works. People expect something fun, something playful. They see the point of these works as being able to fully understand the relationship between themselves and the work. Like trying to work out figurative details in an abstract expressionist painting... it's pointless. I would never make a piece like that. My work aims for the complete absence of anything energetic or engaging. I find the whole idea of play or embodied understanding in the context of interactive art completely distasteful.
In the context of the work I do looking at sound and colour, both with Ernest Edmonds and my own solo work. The emphasis is on correlations that are purely aesthetic. There is no innate or mathematical relationship between sound and colour. Anything one does is purely invented. I like the idea that these works are presented as if there is some relationship, where in fact there is none or could be any.
MW: What is it about an alienating or confusing art experiences that you find rewarding? And is that response related to minimal or formalist aesthetics?
I don't know. I think alienating and confusing are probably not the best ways to describe what I'm trying to describe. Most art is often like that anyway. But with the snd music it is like kind of blank, like someone stood with their back to you.... we are just preparing for a big tour, and as a focus for developing this we focus on leaving the audience feeling cold, not just a lack of interest in trying to engage anyone, but more like deliberately avoiding this... no dynamic changes in beats or nodding heads behind powerbooks, just large, awkward, immobile slabs of form. Imagine a Zen Buddhist with unresolved emotional issues. For me, thats how this particular "vibe" relates to minimal or formal aesthetics.
MW: For me this feeling seems linked to the formal, machine-like autonomy of the work's structure - the structure establishes itself and plays itself out without reference to the audience - in your analogy it has its back turned. It's not hostile or aggressive, it's just oblivious, pursuing its own logic.
Yeah, I like that.
MW: Your own work seems to have become more minimal recently, focusing on very basic audiovisual elements - which I will come back to. But other works seem more personal reflections on place - works like "Coming of Age in South Yorkshire", and your reconstruction of the Human League's album "Reproduction". Manifold, your installation with Joe Gilmore, also responds to place though in more abstract terms. Can you elaborate on this side of your work?
The Reproduction project... In terms of sound I think it's as formal as anything else I've done. There is perhaps one track where the listener could here some reference to the source. The project was like a re-organisation and atomisation of what the Human League had done. All the musical changes were at a micro level. The lyrics on the sleeve had been sorted into alphabetical order. The images of reproduction on the cover were of plant cells dividing rather than babies (as on the original). So it was very much like some kind of organisation according to different rules or processes.
Coming of Age in South Yorkshire was a shot of sunset and sunrise over Sheffield from the same camera angle. And these were projected together at opposite ends of the gallery. So essentially it's a movement of blue light from one side to purple light on the other.
So both of the above were quite formal exercises. But obviously there is some personal relationship to the city and the sound. I grew up in Sheffield and spend most of my teenage years listening to electronic music. Sheffield then was very different. Lots of derelict factories and empty spaces. No cafe bars and everyone (it seemed) was into electronic music. The city was a big adventure, so it's also quite sentimental too I think. But I think this is probably more evident in Coming of Age in South Yorkshire.
Both pieces refer also to anthropology and musicology. Like "Secular Musics of the Dogon Tribe" or whatever.... I used to love those old anthropological recordings that always seemed to crop up in charity shops. And Coming of Age in South Yorkshire refers to the book Coming Of Age In Samoa. But what's important here is the emphasis on some kind of "scientific" process of understanding of something alien.
The Manifold piece... We went to do a site visit and found this amazing old railway arch. Inside it was just complete dust and things laying around. In the centre was a large concrete slab. It occurred to us to leave the space untouched and just to project onto the slab. It looked amazing. It's good to transform spaces just with the use of light and sound. Especially pure colour and tone. The work has two sites: site a uses image analysis of patterns in a car park and this connects to behaviours in the visual and sonic output. Although it's related to place, the finer point is about the relationship between systems. One - a car park, the other - some flocking algorithm. It was about the transference of data and the use of this for purely aesthetic reasons. I guess in many ways the piece looked great but failed in terms of foregrounding things like the beauty of traffic movement in a car park. But I like the idea of overlaying of systems.
The common theme between Manifold, Reproduction and Coming of Age is one of the relationship between divergent systems and processes rather than a relationship to any given location. Again like the relationship between sound and image, purely arbitrary, fictitious and aesthetic.
MW: In your recent audiovisual works - such as 64 Pixels and 240 Sine Waves (below) - you set up these arbitrary relationships between sound and light, linking synth parameters to the color and brightness of an array of LED lights. How do you choose these mappings between sound and light, and what role does sensation - or even pleasure - play? What has drawn you to these tightly constructed relationships?
In Manifold with Joe Gilmore we developed a system whereby over the duration of the work every parameter from the environment was mapped every parameter of the output. So over a month it cycled through every possible combination of mappings, using these simple systems to weave quite a complex structural object.
But the recent works I've been doing - with pure synthesis and colour in the form of light - link the two in the closest possible way, but in a way that is completely arbitrary. There is no mapping. It's just like putting two objects next to each other - say a football and a block of cheddar cheese, then a tennis ball and some ricotta, just collections of two classes of object. When we talk about correspondences in sound and image, its just the same as correspondences between spherical objects used in sporting activities and slightly decayed dairy products. The relationship is absolutely tight, but doesn't follow any mathematical or natural law. Given that this relationship is an aesthetic one, sensation and pleasure are considerations.
MW: The long durations, simple elements, multiple speakers, and matter-of-fact titles of these works, all remind me of American minimalism - La Monte Young and Phill Niblock for example. Is there a connection there?
I don't know their works very well. I've met Niblock a couple of times. I think he has some works on Touch in the UK who publish my work. I know one or two pieces. In fact, one piece by Niblock that I have never heard has influenced me. He took a group of flute players (flutists?) and played sine waves to each one over headphones and got them to tune to this. I never heard this work but when I heard about it somewhere I thought it was a great idea. I should check out La Monte Young. I often work with Yasunao Tone who is a Fluxus sound artist, but very different in terms of sound. His work and approach have influenced (and confused) me massively.
Within the genre to which my work is aligned there's lots of tonal music. And actually I always hated this as to me it always alluded to some kind of Western New Age version of music for meditation. I remember in interviews at the time criticizing music like this for its pseudo "zen-like vibe". Someone like Yasunao for example, whose music is complex and chaotic shards of digital synthesis, is a far more interesting sonification of Eastern religious thought.
As a teenager, as I was getting into synthesis I also read the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the ideas about vibration interested me. These recent works draw upon this. Not by trying to emulate gong-like harmonics or whatever, but with pure digital tones, each tone having a different speaker. Each speaker produces one tone, and these are distributed around the space.
This approach is very different to multi speaker works in say electro-acoustic music where sounds are moved around. In my works sounds are utterly static - one sound from one speaker. This creates an unusual and complex synthetic sound field that changes as the listener moves around the space.
I'm doing a new piece for DVD in this colour and sound series. It started out after I read some book by Aleister Crowley (also as a teenager) where he suggests exercises for focusing your conciousness, such as imagining a blue oval. So the DVD is like this; very simple forms using colour and sound that remain totally immobile.
The working title for this is "Jihad" which people are warning me about using. But what appeals to me about this isn't that I'm being ironic or political. In essence Jihad is about personal growth, social responsibility, etc etc. And as it is defined in the Koran it's actually a very well thought out model of how positive change is carried out, and it encompasses several levels of activity – it's a formal system of change. It annoys me that in the West we are happy to take ideas from Buddhism and turn them into ways of selling aromatherapy candles, yet the notion of Jihad, which is equivalent in its intention, is framed as something evil.
But, to bring this conversation back round to where it started. My dislike of tonal musics from the genre I'm working in, and its pseudo-spiritual connection, is something I'm quite critical of. Here I want to present something that is like a harder version of this. Some very pure vibrating forms. Without the aromatherapy candles.
MW: On that thread, I've been reading some theory lately that proposes the idea of presence - in an experiential, materialist, just-being-there kind of way - as central to aesthetic experience. These ideas seem to fit with a lot of the (minimal, abstract, formal) media art that interests me - including yours. Would you agree?
This is really interesting. I arrived at a massive interest in Heidegger only recently - perhaps five or six years ago. And although it took some time to get to grips with his thought, there was an instant attraction for me. Mainly because his approach to being seemed like the best way to sum up what's wrong with lots of assumptions and attitudes I had encountered during my education... assumptions and attitudes that I believe find their ultimate expression in Western myths about art and technology. So I relate very quickly to the description of presence and meaning.
Along with meaning we encounter notions of skill, interpretation, intention, control, the idea, the purpose; a set of interlocking concepts are derived from and that promote a particular (metaphysical) relationship between ourselves and our environment.
As a student studying video I was keen to make more abstract non-narrative pieces. This was difficult at the college in my local town. So in my spare time I made pieces using various kinds of chroma keying, colour over lay systems and video feedback. All realised on analogue technology. When my tutor saw these he warned me that it was important I should start with an "idea" because otherwise my work would simply be "driven by the technology". (As a structuralist might suggest that the system of language drives its uses... My view shortly after was more Wittgenstein-like - that the uses of language extend the system.)
I instantly reacted against this position - perhaps for the first time - I had never encountered it as a problem before it had been posed as such. Indeed in my everyday life I often saw people making things up as they went along. The best example is my father who, when making a conservatory at our home started with the first brick and made it up as he went along (resulting is some quite challenging architecture…).
At the same time at college under the same tutor I was doing communications studies. A particular diagram by Shannon and Weaver had technology labeled as a "noise source". Although at the time I was unable to fully explain my objection to this, it is now obvious that this view of technology is similar to a Cartesian account of the body. A somehow imperfect or flawed container of an otherwise pure soul, or meaning. And this connects to beliefs about the inadequacy of language or technology. Opposite to that Richard Rorty suggests: the human self is created by the use of a vocabulary rather than being adequately or inadequately expressed in a vocabulary. And this is my view of technology and its function in art. It's not about the encoding or transmission of a previously "disembodied" meaning. Although for me technology in action is a kind of thinking or understanding which makes some kind of meaning. Like a Wittgensteinian view of language, I don't think it has an inherent meaning of its own. This is how I think about the notions of technology and absence of intended meaning in my practice.
MW: Finally, what are your thoughts on the wider scene that surrounds your work? You do a lot of curatorial work with festivals, which seem to be flourishing, especially in the UK. What's going on in the electronic music / new media art worlds that interests or irritates you?
The whole laptop thing is over. Back in 96-7 it was interesting to see the likes of Farmers Manual stooping over their Powerbooks nodding with the beat. But now it's common place - even the fattest and baldest academics are at it. The genre is not an oppositional one any more. Its main protagonists no longer define themselves in opposition to more traditional electro-acoustic practices. Hecker and Haswell for example exploring multi-speaker systems with a release on Warner Classics, Autechre also inviting Bernard Parmegiani to play at the ATP festival they curated. That's a point of interest - a new relationship between two practices.
Irritations... in festivals it's the presentation of works that still feature people stooped over laptops nodding in time to a beat. I guess I find it annoying too when curators just want to give quick and easy experiences to the audience. Like before, works that explore "play" etc., the whole "play" vibe was interesting 10 years ago. Now it's just boring I think.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
A Conversation with Mark Fell
In the heyday of laptop, back in the late-90s, Sheffield duo snd - Mark Fell and Matt Steel - were getting lots of airplay at my house. I recently ran across Fell's other work through DC-Release, a recent collaboration with Ernest Edmonds. This AV performance work constructs a tight correspondence between minimal colour-field graphics and a palette of percussive synthetic sound. In this conversation Fell talks formalism, philosophy, religion, art school, interactivity and audiovisuals and namechecks Heidegger, Yasunao Tone and Aleister Crowley, among others. I'd like to thank him for being a candid and generous "subject" in this blog's first interview - hopefully the first of many.
Posted by Mitchell at 5:34 pm
Labels: aesthetics, audiovisual, interview, performance, philosophy
2 comments:
- Kaz Maslanka said...
"In the context of the work I do looking at sound and colour, both with Ernest Edmonds and my own solo work. The emphasis is on correlations that are purely aesthetic. There is no innate or mathematical relationship between sound and colour. Anything one does is purely invented. I like the idea that these works are presented as if there is some relationship, where in fact there is none or could be any."
"Aesthetics" is such a loaded word and I cannot be sure of what he means however, I do like his realization that there is no mathematical connection to sound and light although so many people think there is.
Thanks for your post!
- 4:28 pm
- Anonymous said...
Hey, I was just wondering what SND was up to. I listened to Stdio last week. I heard those cats open for Autechre at the Untilted tour.. they were really solid.
Great work Mitchell. :)
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